В 11.00 в Законодательном собрании (ул. Кирова, 114) состоится заседание круглого стола «Человек. Закон. Власть. Правовые и политические проблемы жителей и способы их решения». В 11.30 в пресс-центре областного правительства (ул. Цвиллинга, 27) начнется брифинг чемпионки мира по волейболу среди женских команд Екатерины Старцевой. В 11.30 в областном правительстве (ул. Цвиллинга, 27) состоится встреча главы региона Михаила Юревича и президента концерна «Фортум» Тупио Куула. В 12.00 в резиденции губернатора (ул. Цвиллинга, 27) пройдет заседание правительства Челябинской области. В 14.00 в

18–19 ноября в Челябинске состоится III Региональный форум–диалог «Атомные производства, общество, безопасность — 2010».

Chairman of OAO Bank24.ru Sergey Lapshin believes there is no point in engaging in corporate lending in Russia in the next two or three years. This is what he said in the course of Elena Ischeeva’s Top People program broadcast via Banki.ru. ‘Three years ago, I could get money for, say, 15% a year and offer my customers a loan with an annual interest rate of 25%, which meant my margins would reach 10% a year. Let’s take a ten-billion lending portfolio, for instance. I knew that I’d make a billion worth of margins in a year on these ten billions,’ he explains. Now, however, the economic

ZAO Raiffeisenbank’s outlet known as Plotinka at 31 K Malyshev St no longer operates in Yekaterinburg. ‘To let’ announcements regarding the building can already be found on the Internet. The bank has also closed its Na Kosmonavtov office at 21 Kuznetsov St in Ordzhonikidzevsky district of Yekaterinburg. Now Raiffeisenbank’s centrally located Plotinka office had operated for two and a half years. The outlet got its name from a café called Plotinka which used to be located in the building.

Holiday Inn, the famous hotel chain, is now negotiating for a land allotment in Yekaterinburg to put up a hotel there. According to some data, the hotel might be located in a multi-purpose block commonly referred to as Summit at 51a Vosmoye Marta St. It is reported that Summit is to be launched in March 2011. Holiday Inn Hotels first announced they were planning on building their hotel in Yekaterinburg as early as 2007.

OAO Ural Airlines is about to welcome its 1,500,000th passenger of the year aboard. ‘We only needed a few extra days to set a record last year, but in this year 2010 we did manage to break it. This was possible due to an extended destination network. Last year, we operated quite a few flights from Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Novokuznetsk, and Sochi. What is more, we were the third largest carrier in terms of the number of flights operated from Domodedovo Airport in Moscow,’ the airline’s press service reports. Ural Airlines’ experts have calculated that the company’s 1,500,000th passenger will be

VTB Bank denies buying Home Credit & Finance Bank despite the claims made by the owner of Tinkoff Credit Systems Oleg Tinkoff via his Twitter account, RIA Novosti says. ‘VTB Bank cannot confirm any acquisition of this kind. These are only rumors,’ VTB Finance Director Herbert Moos asked the bank’s press service to state. Now Home Credit & Finance Bank’s controlling shareholder the Czech Republic’s PPF Investments Group also said that it was not going to comment on ‘market gossip’.